Magazine plate-holder.



PATBNTED JULY 24,1906.

j No. 826,920.

J. CARPENTIER; MAGAZINE PLATE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED lSEPI. 24. 1903.

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JULES CARPENTIER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

MAGAZINE PLATE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24:, 1906.

Application filed September 24:, 1903. Serial No. 174,435.

To a/ZZ whom t may concer-u:

Be it known that I, JULES CARPENTIER, manufacturer, a citizen of theRepublic of France, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, (Whosefull postal address is 2O Rue Delambre, Paris, aforesaid,) have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Magazine Plate-Holders, of whichthe following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a box for photographic plates, theprice of which box 1s not very much higher than that of the boxes atpresent employed for the packing of plates and which can also serve as abox for exposing same one after the other when placed in a suitablesheath which is arranged to fit the camera or to be formed in one withit. In this manner the photographic apparatus does not need a dark slideof the kind at present in use. It has only the sheath, which can serveas a cover for the drawer containing the plates, and this drawer isitself a simple box of cardboard or other material of small value inwhich the plates are sold, the said box being, as hereinafter explained,arranged to allow of the changing of the plates.

Figure l is a vertical section of a box for photographic plates, Fig. 2,an end view; Fig. 3, a plan. Fig. 4 shows in vertical sec tion thespring means for holding the plates Fig. 5, a plan. Fig. 5a is a similarview showing a modification of the same, and Fig. 6 an end view of thesame. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 are respectively a longitudinal section, atransverse section, and a horizontal section, of a box filled withplates. Figs. 10, 11, and 12 show in two vertical sections at rightangles a sheath designed' for the camera for receiving the box ofplates. Finally, Fig. 13 shows a vertical section of the box inserted inthe bottom of the sheath, and Fig. 14 shows the box drawn out and havingdisengaged the uppermost plate, which has fallen into the portion fromwhich it can be placed under the pile when the drawer is pushed in.

The box, which incloses the packed photographic plates in which they aresold, comprises an exterior covering A, generally of cardboard, which isopen at one end only. The end c opposite that which is open has a handleor tab or the like l). This exterior covering A has in its interior andon its top side near to the free edge of the same stops c, the object ofwhich is to draw with it the top plate of the pile in the box when theexterior covering is drawn olf. On the top of this box A and on theoutside is formed a transverse projection which extends across the box.The stops c and the projection d are easily formed by means of the edgesof the strip e, bent as shown in Figs. 1 and 14, which at the same timestrengthens the free edge of the box A.

AOn the bottom of the box, which carries the handle or tab, is fixed anend piece B, generally formed by a small block of wood ixed by nails,screws, or other means.

On the interior of the box A is located the device for holding the pileof plates. This device is formed of two longitudinal strips of metal C,Figs. 4, 5, 6, which are bent at the top and lower part, so as to formiangesf and g and one of the ends i. The metal projections h form stopson the strips C on the inside and serve to maintain the plates one aboveanother in a regular pile. A piece or plate of wood forms the cover D ofthe box and has a projection r on its periphery and 1s provided with twosmall slots in which the metal flanges 'i engage, which renders the saidcover D and the strips C rigid. r[he small plate D can be replaced by abent sheet of metal, Fig. 5a, on which the strips C are hooked. Thisngure also shows how the projection r can be bent in such a manner as tocover the edges of the box A so as to insure a perfect closing. rThisprojection r naturally extends around the periphery of the end plate orcover D. A modification of the same is shown in Fig. 5a.

When loading, the plates are introduced between the strips C, the stops7L, and the lid D. They are pressed by the springsE against the upperflanges f of thesaid strips C, as shown in Fig. 8. The plates thusarranged are put into the box A, Figs. 7, 8, and 9. It will be seen thatthe cover D, with its flanges r, completely closes the end of the box A.`The end piece B forms a projection on the bottom of the box A to anextent equal to the space existing along the longitudinal strips Cbeyond the stops 7L. It may be remarked that when the charge isintroduced into the box or case A, which is open at the end, the smallstops or hooks c come beyond the end of the photographic plate which ison the top of the pile in such a way that this plate will be displacedwhen the box A is drawn out, the transverse end or cover D being held inits place.

After having described the box which serves as a magazine for platessuitable for IOO lIO

the sale, as well as for the changing, I will describe the arrangementofy the sheath which is designed to receive the said box. This sheath,which can be made of metal or wood, is open on three sides. In fact,itis formed of a lower plate H, of two sides I I, and a top whichconsists only of the two lateral strips c 7c with a transverse strip Z,which is opposite to the end by which the magazine-box containing theplates is inserted. On this side on the interior of the entrance of thesheath this latter has two small rabbets m, into which theslightly-projecting edges of the transverse end D of the box must enter.

The end of the magazine-box which is first introduced into the sheath isthat which carries the handle or tab vWhen the box is in place, it isprevented from coming out by means of a door y), which closes the end ofthe sheath by which the box has been introduced. This door can bearranged in several ways. When it is of wood, it is, for example, hingedand held fast by any suitable means.

Then the box A is drawn out to expose a photographic plate of the pilebetween the strips f.' of the top of the sheath, the displacement of thebox-drawer is limited by the upper transverse piece l, against which thecross projection d, which bears against the top ofthe box, abuts, Fig.14.

I have hereinbefore explained that when the box A is closed theprojections c or stops were in front of the top photographic plate, asis shown in Fig. 13. When it is desired to expose a plate, the packageis withdrawn from the box. This movement carries with it the frontplate. The others are pushed by the springs, and the stack is pushedforward the thickness of a plate. Then the second plate of the packageis exposed in the first place. When the exposure has taken place, thepackage is pushed back, hiding the front plate, and the plate (formerlythe first plate fallen into the package) is inserted between the last orback plate and the springs. It then becomes the last.

I claim as my inventionl. In combination with a case or sheath, amagazine-box of pasteboard or other material serving as an originalpackage adapted for insertion into said case or sheath for the exposureof photographic plates, and consisting of two parts, a box proper openat the end, and a cover provided with flanges adapted for engagementwith the case or sheath, means connected to the cover for carrying theplates, and springs for maintaining the plates thereinin a uniform pile.

2. A magazine-box formed of two parts, a box proper open at one end anda cover with flanges, strips connected to the cover, for carrying theplates, and springs on said strips, in combination with a case or sheathopen on one side adapted to be carried by the photographic apparatus forthe reception of the whole of the magazine-box, and with which theflanges of the cover engage when the magazine-box is inserted therein.

3. A magazine-box formed of two parts, a box proper open at one end, anda cover with flanges, strips connected with the cover, and springs onsaid strips for the plates, and a case open at the end to receive thebox, in combination with the means adapted to engage the flanges toretain the cover in place in the case, although the box proper bedisplaced,

4. A magazine-box formed of two parts, a box proper having a cover withflanges, strips connected to the cover, and springs on said strips, acase adapted to receive the whole, and means to secure the cover in thecase, in combination with a projection carried on thc box, to limit itsmovement within the case and means adapted to withdraw a plate from thetop ofl the pile on such movement.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULES CARPENTIER.

I/Vitnesses ALPHONSE MJEAN, PAUL F. PAQUET.

